Paternal age effect
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The paternal age effect describes the influence that a father’s age has on the chances of conferring a genetic defect to his offspring. Generally, older men have a greater probability of fathering children with a genetic defect than younger men do. This is seen as likely due to genetic copying errors which may increase in number after repeated spermatogenesis cycles over a man’s lifetime.
Disorders correlated with paternal age
Disorders correlated with paternal age
Achondroplasia (dwarfism); craniofacial disorders such as Apert syndrome and Crouzon Syndrome; mental retardation of unknown etiologies; autism; and 25% of schizophrenia cases are correlated with advanced paternal age.
Other disorders related to advanced paternal age are:
- Wilms’ tumor
- Thanatophoric dysplasia
- Retinitis pigmentosa
- Osteogenesis imperfecta type IIA
- Acrodysostosis
- Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva
- Aniridia
- Bilateral retinoblastoma
- Multiple exostoses
- Marfan Syndrome
- Lesch-Nyhan syndrome
- Pfeiffer Syndrome
- Wardenburg Syndrome
- Treacher-Collins Syndrome
- Soto’s basal cell nevus
- Cleidocranial dysostosis
- Polyposis coli
- Oculodentodigital syndrome
- Costello syndrome
- Progeria
- Recklinghausen’s neurofibromatosis
- Tuberous sclerosis
- Polycystic kidney disease
- Hemophilia A
- Duchenne muscular dystrophy
- Athetoid Cerebral Palsy
- Dystonic Cerebral Palsy
- Congenital Hemiplegia
References
References
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External links
External links
- Paternal+age at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
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